Honors + Awards in the Arts

National YoungArts Winner in Photography (Awarded to nine students in the United States in 2013)

3-Time Texas Imagemaker (Awarded annually to the top ten student photographers in Texas)

Invited by the Preceptorial Committee of the University of Pennsylvania to lecture on professional photography in the fall of 2015. Preceptorials are non-credit seminars “led by distinguished faculty, outstanding graduate students, lauded external educators and exceptional undergraduate students.” (http://www.preceptorials.org/)

Environmental Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (UK): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/galleries/Environmental-Photographer-of-the-Year-2013/environ6/

Pembroke-King’s Programme, Cambridge University Photo Competition Cambridge Category Winner

2014-2015 University of Pennsylvania Publications Cooperative "Best Magazine" Award

2015 Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards National Silver Medal (artwork selected out of over 230,000 submissions)

Directed Inspiring Tomorrow, a film about St. Mark’s 2013-2014 iGEM Team (http://youtu.be/Ji7MGJNIAUA), screened at the AMC Empire Theaters in New York City Times Square October 24-27th as part of an Official Selection for the 2014 Varsity Brands All American Film Festival: October 2014

3rd Place Teenage Photographers International Contest sponsored by Adobe

Photo Imaging Education Association International Exhibit at the May Gallery (Webster University in St. Louis)

Finalist in the National Geographic Student Expeditions Photo Contest

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Region-At-Large)

Silver Key Award for Photography
Honorable Mention for Photography
Honorable Mention for Photography

Texas A&M University-Commerce 31st Annual Shoot-Out

1st Place Architecture/Industrial - Color
2nd Place Photojournalism - Black and White
2nd Place Digital
3rd Place Photojournalism - Black and White
Honorable Mention Commercial - Color

Association of Texas Photography Instructors Fall Contest

1st Place Advanced Open
1st Place Advanced Digitally Constructed Single Image
3rd Place Advanced Architecture/Cityscape
First Honorable Mention Advanced Portfolio
Honorable Mention Advanced Cell Phone Photograph
Honorable Mention Advanced Digitally Constructed Single Image
Honorable Mention Advanced Thematic - Water

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Region-At-Large)

Gold Key Award for Photography
Gold Key Award for Photography
Silver Key Award for Photography

Texas A&M University-Commerce 31st Annual Shoot-Out

Scholarship Winner
Best of Show Black and White
1st Place Landscape/Nature - Black and White
1st Place Digitally Constructed
2nd Place Commercial - Color
2nd Place Photojournalism - Black and White
2nd Place Open - Black and White
3rd Place Junior/Senior Portfolio
Honorable Mention Open - Color
Photo Annual Awards 3rd Place & Final Wall Gallery Exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic

St. Mark’s Excellence in Photography Award (awarded to one student in St. Mark's School of Texas)

International Photography Awards Honorable Mention Street Photography/Cityscapes

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Region-At-Large)

Silver Key Award in Photography
Honorable Mention in Photography
Emaho International Exhibition

Photo Annual Awards Honorable Mention & Final Wall Gallery Exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic

Kutoa Travel’s Joys of Travel Photography Contest Honorable Mention

Texas A&M University-Commerce Annual Photography Shootout Honorable Mention All Years Landscape

Association of Texas Photography Instructors Fall Contest

1st Place Advanced Architecture/Cityscape
2nd Place Advanced Open
Honorable Mention Advanced Cell Phone Photograph
Honorable Mention Advanced Informal/Environmental Portrait
Honorable Mention Advanced Nature
Honorable Mention Advanced Portfolio

Texas A&M University-Commerce Annual Photography Shootout 3rd Place All Years Landscape

Association of Texas Photography Instructors Fall Contest

2nd Place Advanced Documentary/Travel Portfolio
First Honorable Mention Advanced Thematic (Blue)
Honorable Mention Advanced Architecture/Cityscape
Honorable Mention Advanced Architecture/Cityscape
Honorable Mention Advanced Digitally Constructed Single Image
Honorable Mention Advanced Documentary/Travel Portfolio
Honorable Mention Advanced Nature
Honorable Mention Advanced Nature

Association of Texas Photography Instructors Fall Contest

1st Place Beginning Landscape
2nd Place Beginning Architecture/Cityscape
3rd Place Beginning Landscape
2nd Place Beginning Time Exposure
Honorable Mention Beginning Nature
Honorable Mention Beginning News
Honorable Mention Beginning Open
Fort Worth Country Day Black and White Images Exhibition

Photo Imaging Education Association International Photography Competition 2nd Place